Today's tweets
Campaign to stop Tories vandalising NHS must be immense. Health and fairness will win over greed and privilege. LibDems confusion certain.
Perfect victory for Wales showing strength, skills and character. Fighting back fiercely with a man down will give them mega confidence.
Would the LibDems be sufficiently insane to risk a General Election and political hari-kiri on current boundaries? Yes. I hope so.
@EyeOnWales Time to explain to you that Caerleon, Rogerstone, Graig, Marshfield have been parts of the city of Newport since 1974. Wake up!
About time Sancho, the realist, told the 101 Tory Don Quixotes, "I sometimes think that all you tell me is all windy blather and lies"
Remember Countryside Guardians? - a nuclear industry front group to stop wind power. New ferocious lobbying has fooled blunt-brained Tories
Nuclear the least reliable energy source. A year ago 54 reactors generating electricity in Japan. Now it's three. Nuclear expensive & feared
Tory Don Quixotes charge against windmills deluded by the atrocious distortion of the moronic Mail climate change deniers and Nimbies
@bernardjenkin No nuke has ever been built on time or budget-new nukes in Finland/France are three years late and €billions over budget
@bernardjenkin This was scientific evidence to British Irish Economic Committee - not the Daily Mail propaganda bad science you feed on.
Political conviction?......Perhaps - but lubricated with money. Three months to halt ruin of UK's best achievement. ht.ly/1FAnsu
What lessons from history? After the catastrophic waste of Iraq and Afghanistan, PM is off to USA to synchronise shared futility of Iran war
Time to stop over-reacting Newport to a malicious distorted film on a minority channel. Accentuate the many positives.paulflynnmp.typepad.com/my_weblog/2012…
Greenest Government ever? Tough on Lobbyists? Big Society boost? Protecting NHS? Fair to sick and old? Any promise the Tories have kept?
Science says rightwingers are less intelligent than leftwingers. The Mail says so. Or perhaps they're being stupid?dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar…
Why are opinion polls no longer news worthy when Labour is back in the lead?,,,because right wingers are stupid?dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar…
Windfarms work 80% of the time. So do nuclear generators. Tory MPs revolt against wind power proves that right wingers are stupid.
Paul Flynn
Windfarms work 80% of the time. So do nuclear generators. Tory MPs revolt against wind power proves that right wingers are stupid.
Bernard Jenkin MP
@Paulflynnmp
On shore wind turbines are NOT 80% efficient! They generate at only approx 28% of capacity. Unlike nuclear!
Paul Flynn
@bernardjenkin This was scientific evidence to British Irish Economic Committee - not the Daily Mail propaganda bad science you feed on.
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Those are two different things Paul,
There isn't any particular issue with saying that windfarms and nuclear both only work 80% of the time
but that
when they do work, they are not equally "efficient".
http://www.bwea.com/energy/myths.html
"Over the course of a year, it will typically generate about 30% of the theoretical maximum output. This is known as its load factor. The load factor of conventional power stations is on average 50%"
The load factor for onshore wind farms is about 30% and the load factor for nuclear is about 80%
On the other hands, nuclear produces waste that our best solution for is to stick in the ground out of sight and monitor for 10,000 years to be sure it doesn't leak and contaminate this island. It is a potential target for attacks and it is the most costly form of power generation known to man, with the vast majority of it's costs loaded on the back-end when they will have to be paid, despite not actually getting power from them anymore.
Posted by: HuwOS | February 06, 2012 at 10:46 AM
As far as I understand it, their best argument against wind, is that it isn't necessarily producing energy when it's actually needed.
Which is true, but it seems to me in my relative ignorance that all that means is when it is producing energy that the grid does not need, we need a kind of storage stage so that it can be kept and used when it is needed.
So, for example if we used it to get hydrogen from water, then we could use the hydrogen to generate power when there was demand and the waste from that, is water so no big problems there unlike nuclear waste.
Posted by: HuwOS | February 06, 2012 at 11:04 AM